Jasmin Ward is a soprano from Virginia, currently in her second year of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the Met’s 2026–27 season, she will sing First Lady in Julie Taymor's iconic holiday presentation of The Magic Flute and the Priestess in Aida. She made her Met debut during the 2025-26 season as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly after covering Lily and Strawberry Woman  in Porgy and Bess. Recent operatic engagements include First Lady in The Magic Flute and Gerhilde in Die Walküre at the Santa Fe Opera, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, Rose Segal in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening, and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra at Juilliard Opera. On the concert stage, she made her Alice Tully Hall debut in 2025 performing selections from Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder, was a featured artist in the 2025 Juilliard Honors recital at Merkin Hall, sang Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Greenwich Village Orchestra, performed selections from Brahms’s Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder at the Wintergreen Music Festival, appeared as the soprano soloist in the Richmond Ballet’s production of Vivaldi’s Gloria, and performed at the 2022 Virginia Gubernatorial inauguration. In 2024, she was awarded the Murray Rosenthal–Philip Hagemann Award from the Opera Index Vocal Competition and the following year, was named a semifinalist in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition and received the Florence and Paul DeRosa Prize from the Juilliard School. She is an alumna of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Program, the Denyce Graves Foundation’s Shared Voices program, and Wintergreen Music Festival’s LEAD Cooperative. She holds degrees in voice from Virginia Commonwealth University and the Juilliard School.